Smal

Not sure why that's not a yellow. Seemed pretty deliberate.

We don't have anyone other than Perez to play as a 10. Nobody else in our squad is good enough in tight spaces to play that position. You could simply not play a 10 and have a midfield 3 of Hayden, Merino and Shelvey, but that's not Rafa's system and we'd have to defend a lot higher up the pitch for it to work.

Playing against Huddersfield as though they're a top 4 side. Depressingly familiar.

Such a knobhead tackle.

This is such a shit joke.

Could explain why signings have been delayed.

I thought the mutant ninja turtles were American anyway

Retrospective yellow cards for taking shirts off iyam

Is Al-Habsi allowed to come of his line like that?

Pretty harsh to judge a player from a club outside of the top 6 based on his record against clubs that are in that quota. Teams like Everton are always going to be on the backfoot in those games.

Seems to have gained a lot of confidence over the course of the season as well. His play when he actually has possession of the ball has been great recently.

Would still find a way to pass it backwards

Games like this would be so much easier if we had two full backs that actually carry a threat going forwards. Get Yedlin on.

Great finish tbf although looks like Elliot could've done better.

Pretty sure it's impossible to tackle Moussa Dembele. Kante can't even get it off him.

how

Interesting to see him play more of an all out 4-4-2 today. Thought it worked well with Perez/Mitrovic.

Colback had to make the foul, but he should never have got himself in a position where he had to do something like that. He's too slow and doesn't anticipate play. Complete contrast to Hayden's performance tonight.

Good performance tonight, like. Very unlucky not to win handsomely. That defending for their goal though. Jesus fucking christ.

Lascelles is utter shite

Need someone who can thread a pass playing where AOC was playing and I think we'll be ok. He wasn't creative enough. Shelvey probably would've looked better there.

At what point do you start describing a player as "experienced"? Clark is 27 and has made almost 200 senior appearances now.

Mine too. Yep. Never looked in trouble at any point.

His sort of game, that. Perfect Rafa performance